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- JackRyan
Has anybody bought a shirt that uses direct to garment printing technology? If so, what is the quality like? How does it wash? How does it compare to a traditional silkscreen shirt quality wise? Many thank-you's in advance.
yours truly,
- TechVector0
T-Jet3 is ok, I haven't seen the prints on dark colors but on lights they look pretty nice. Brother makes a machine that doesn't print on darks but the lights are super nice. The Kiosk DTG machine I heard also prints super nice.
I've only seen/washed the t-jet prints and the ones from the Brother printer and they both hold up great....colors seemed a bit brighter on the Brother.
I really like the hand of the water based inkjet prints...no slab of ink feel like traditional screen printing...coincidentally, I'm about to purchase a Brother or a Kiosk....haven't settled on which just yet.
cheers.
- JackRyan0
Thanks for the info Tech...and let me know if you get that machine. ;)
- horton0
hmm.. any chance you're just reading about bountee.com on the coolhunting newsletter?
- edd-e0
nice article horton.
- acescence0
this guy isn't very happy
- JackRyan0
Yes...yes I was.
- edd-e0
is the printer itself expensive?
- MrD0
10k for refurb it says
- horton0
i dunno $15000+ for a basic machine.. not sure if those are even capable of doing dark fabrics. thats a big investment on relatively new technology.
personaly i'd rather get tees screenprinted.. for the price people are paying for designer tees these days, cost isn't a big issue. and when taking full advantage of the screening process there's a quality about the layered inks that can't be matched. find a shop using waterbase inks, discharges and such and its lots of fun.
kinda like comparing a bulk cmyk job to a spot inks or letterpress.
imo :)
- edd-e0
how about the crispness of spot pantone colors?
can thiis machine do that?